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Pretoria Sightseeing Day Trip from Johannesburg

Discover Pretoria’s top sights on this 5-hour sightseeing tour from Johannesburg. With an expert guide, admire the highlights of South Africa’s elegant administrative capital, nicknamed the ‘Jacaranda City,’ for its annual purple jacaranda blooms, and learn about its tangled history. Stop outside the imposing Palace of Justice, where Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in 1964, and see the Union Buildings where he was made president 30 years later. Plus, visit Kruger House, once home to Boer leader Paul Kruger, and the mighty Voortrekker Monument, before your return to Johannesburg.

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Due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently not taking new bookings for day tours.

Traveler pickup is offeredShould your hotel not be listed, please contact us to confirm if we will pick up and drop off from your hotel.

Returns To

Returns to original departure point

Additional Information

Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability

A minimum of 2 people is required for this tour to operate

Booking Information

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Cancellation Terms

Once booked, this trip is fully non-refundable

Booking Terms and Conditions

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Scoring an average traveller rating of 4.5
out of 5
based on the last 24 recent reviews

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The tour was very informative! It's always good to have a native to the land tour you! Though I think this tour is very expensive (especially without a food option), I think we would have paid close to the amount for a taxi or rental to travel there.”

Shan • Submitted 15 Feb 2017

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Fantastic tour!”

Peter R • Submitted 29 Dec 2016

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Very good, Lawrence is a great guide!”

Annette B • Submitted 25 Jul 2016

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The Afrikaneer history shown is Pretoria is both surprising and moving. It was very worthwhile to make this side trip.”

Carl B • Submitted 22 Mar 2016

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Exceptional experiences and worth to do this tour .. Five stars to our guide”

shawng l • Submitted 19 Aug 2014

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Great tour led by a highly knowledgable and articulate guide. Phineas was phenomenal. He really made the day interesting and highly enjoyable.”

Judith B • Submitted 13 Apr 2014

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The tour was great only did not get to see the Church Square, Phenius(not certain about spelling) our guide was excellent, if you go ask for him (10 out of 10)
He new all of the answers and then some.”

Leszek R • Submitted 18 Dec 2013

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Hennie is an excellent tour guide. He has a strong interest in history, culture, and politics and reflects that interest in describing the development of his country.”

DrHoward • Submitted 04 Sep 2013

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Well done. It was interesting to see and hear the story of the Dutch Afrikaners and their confrontations with English colonials.”

Christine H • Submitted 15 Jun 2012

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We had a great guide who gave us a lot of very interesting information about the railroad, the reason for the move to Pretoria, the life of Kruger, etc. Going though Kruger's house was especially intersting, to be able to see how they lived in style back then. I also really enjoyed seeing Kruger's train car, very impressive!”

Daryl Y • Submitted 26 Mar 2012

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beautiful excursion with the person of the good Springbok and efficente”

Fiore L • Submitted 04 Dec 2011

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Our tour guide was named Lucky and we were lucky to be assigned to him!!! He was extremely knowledgable about all the sights, from the Voortrekker Monument to the current houses of parliament in Pretoria, to the Kruger House and Museum. He was even able to arrange a viewing of the original room where parliamentaians met!”

Cheryl W • Submitted 16 Aug 2011

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Our guide was fantastic! The wealth of information he shared with us was great!”

Carolyn M • Submitted 23 Aug 2008

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Good way to see Pretoria. And I have to mention Lawrence who'll make everything so much funnier plus he knows he's history and politics. Great tour!”

Angela S • Submitted 07 Jun 2016

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Great! We saw everthing we wanted to see. Our guide was very nice and polite.”

Cornelia Veroni F • Submitted 22 Apr 2016

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This tour gives you some insight on the colonization of South Africa by the Dutch. It definitely helps you understand the present culture and why things are the way they currently are.”

Riquelmy M • Submitted 07 Jan 2016

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Nice with many museum and sightseein spots,
but other than those, I myself like to see and feel more
daily life of citizens, such as market or downtowns.”

yoshihiro T • Submitted 10 May 2014

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A great experience and a wonderful guide/driver. We had a good time and the tour was what we expected.”

Marcelo Sechieri C. Neves • Submitted 04 Nov 2013

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Excellent guide, very knowledgeable about the history of the Voortrekker monument, Paul Kruger house and South Africa in general. Enjoyed the trip thoroughly and the lunch @ the Boer restaurant was very interesting, even catered for the vegetarian travel buddy :-))”

Charlotte M • Submitted 11 Apr 2013

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Excellent guide and a good lunch.”

TKG • Submitted 22 Jan 2013

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The guide was very nice and interesting. Unfortunately, since I was the only visitor to have booked the tour, I had to pay double to do the visit (as the visit runs from 2 visitors). That made it far too expensive for what it is. Otherwise, great experience, and very confortable to be picked up at the hotel.”

Raphael S • Submitted 14 Jul 2011

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Guide was well informed. Worth taking the trip.”

Sanford E • Submitted 26 Apr 2011

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It was OK.”

Anonymous • Submitted 23 Aug 2008

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Our driver collected us and 2 other couples, 1 of the other couples were catching the Rovos train in Pretoria and were very tight for time , the driver drove very fast to the train and then proceeded to drive very slowly the rest of the tour . Given that ther were very few stops to make it seemed that he was spinning the tour out to make it last. All in all we did not think this tour was good value for money, our score of 3 stars is being generous. We went on other tours with other operators that were great value for money.”

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